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Israeli PM Netanyahu met President Trump at the White House on 4 February.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an order to ban the International Criminal Court (ICC). Trump has taken this step after an arrest warrant issued by the ICC against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yov Galant.
Trump said in the order that the US and Israel are not members of this court. Nor do it recognize it. The ICC has misused its powers.
The US President has also ordered the confiscation of the property of the ICC officials, employees and their family members as well as the person who helped in the investigation and impose a ban ban.
Netanyahu is on a US tour. He met Trump at the White House on 4 February and MPs on 6 February. The ICC issued an arrest warrant on 21 November against Netanyahu and Galant in Gaza in the case of war crime, human rights violations and genocide.
On January 10, a bill related to the ban from the lower house was passed.
Bill passed from the lower house of US Parliament on 10 January
The House of Representatives, the lower House of the US Parliament, passed a bill associated with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on January 10. During the voting on the bill, 243 MPs voted in its favor, while 140 MPs voted against it.
Among those who supported were 198 MPs of the Republican party and 45 from the Democratic Party. No Republican MP opposed the bill.